Category images not appearing in sidebar

• dannyfoo

• February 28, 2014 at 12:33 am

I think ACF is an awesome plugin and it’s made very friendly for people like myself who isn’t much of a programmer. So, thank you!

However, I’ve stumbled on a wall. After I managed to add the image option to my custom taxonomies (categories), I can’t seem to display the category images in my Sidebar. The only thing which output is the category title and description, no image.

Below is the code I’ve used.

<?php
					$args=array(
					'hide_empty' => '0',
					'taxonomy' => 'product_categories'
					);
					
					$categories = get_categories($args);
					
					foreach($categories as $category) {
					$image_url=get_field('product_category_image', 'category_'.$category->term_id);
					echo '<img src="'. $image_url .'"/>';
					echo '<b>'. $category->name .'</b>';
					echo '<p>'. $category->description .'</p>';
					}
				?>

Could you please guide me as to what I’m not doing right? Thanks.

• Elliot

• February 28, 2014 at 9:45 am

Hi @dannyfoo

The $post_id parameter mush be a mixture of the taxonomy and the term_id.
Please change your code to:
'product_categories_'.$category->term_id

You can also just pass in the $term object like so:
$image_url=get_field('product_category_image', $category);

Thanks
E

• dannyfoo

• February 28, 2014 at 12:19 pm

Thanks so much for the guidance @elliot! Images are now showing.

Now to go search in the forum on how others have managed to set a custom size and later read up a little more on the $post_id paraments.

Thanks again.